450 | LEGUMINOS&. 
Ti did not give any reaction for alkaloids ; with ferric chloride 
it gave a green coloration. The aqueous extrait gave marked 
indication of the presence of albumin; it did not reduce an 
alkaline copper solution on boiling. The solution was strongly -. a 
acid in reaction; the nature of the organic acid was not deter- q 
mined. 
Mucuna monosperma, D0., Wight in Hook. . Bot. 
Misc. ii., 346, Suppl., t. 12; Wall. Til As. Rar. iti., 19, t. 286; 
a plant of the Hastern a tropical: Zone, W. Peninsula, 
and Ceylon; Vern. Songarvi, Mothi-kuhili (Mar.), Thelu-kodi a 
(Tam.), bears a large, flat, nearly circular seed, with a 
rough, black testa, 1 inch or more in diameter ; the whole of its 
convex margin is occupied by the hilum. The pods are semi- ~ 
oval, obliquely plaited, one-seeded, and armed with formidable ; 
stinging hairs of'a golden brown colour. Itis used asan expec=_ | 
torant in cough arid asthma, and applied externally asa sedative. y. 
( Peters.) 
CYLISTA SCARIOSA, Ait. 
Fig.—Rowb. Cor. Pl. i. t. 92; Wight Ic. t. 1597. 
Hab.—Concan, Deccan, Canara and Orissa. The roots. 
Vernacular.—Rénghevada (Mar.). This plant is the sole’ 
representative of the genus Cylista, and is a perennial twiner. 
growing among bushes, with ternate leaves, having oval, point- _ 
ed ‘and entire leaflets with short white pubescence, very dense — 
on the under-surface. The yellowish-red flowers, about ‘half — 
an inch long, borne on erect bracted recemes, are remarkable — 
for their large papery calyx, which is much more conspicuous — | 
than the corollas, and is deeply four-cleft; the upper segment 3 
being two-lobed, the lateral ones much smaller, and the lowest — 
very large, all of them beautifully veined. The little oval one- _ 
_ seeded pod is completely enveloped in the peculiar calyx, which q 
affords the most marked character in the genus. (Fi, Brit. — 
Ind. “ii., 219; A. A. Black-in Treaswry of Botany i. 371.) _ 
_ This plant is called by the natives of the Concan UaaaST 
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